Ship: Seahorse
Name: RPH
Date: 24/APRIL/2023
Ship’s Activity: Monitoring
Table 1. Small boat counting was done during the night of the 23 th of April from 20:00 to 23:59 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no small boats were seen in the ZTA or outside.
| Hour | Boats in the ZTA | Boats in the Buffer Zone | Boats in the VR |
| 20:00 | 1 | 3 | 22 |
| 21:00 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 23:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Table 2. Small boat counting was done on the 24 th of April from 00:00 to 20:00 with radar observations. The hours not represented in this table correspond to hours when no pangas were seen in the ZTA or outside.
| Hour | Small boats Inside ZTA | ||||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | Crossing | |
| 07:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 08:00 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 09:00 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 10:00 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 11:00 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 13:00 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 14:00 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 15:00 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 16:00 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17:00 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 19:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Hour | Small boats in the Buffer Zone | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 11:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 12:00 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 13:00 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 14:00 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 15:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 16:00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 17:00 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 18:00 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 19:00 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Hour | Small boats in the VR | |||
|
Total |
Net Fishing | Divers | Potential Net Fishing | |
| 10:00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 11:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12:00 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 13:00 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 14:00 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 15:00 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| 16:00 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 17:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 18:00 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 19:00 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
Total number of different small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA: 7.
Total number of different small fishing boats fishing today in the ZTA Buffer Zone: 28.
At 10:18, a red, blue, and black flag was found inside the ZTA. There were also 4 small boats fishing inside the ZTA. The Navy was contacted and the interceptor arrived in the area. The interceptor retrieved the unattended nets while the 3 small boats pulled their nets out of the water. By 12:06, the navy had finished pulling in the nets and the small boats had left the ZTA.
Around 16:00 another small boat was detected fishing inside the ZTA, they had 2 nets in the water with flags of different colors. The MV Seahorse reported to the Navy, 2 interceptors arrived in the area and started to talk with the boats and remove the illegal nets from the water.
Shortly after, another boat arrived in the area and approached aggressively the navy interceptors who were already pulling nets from the water. The 2 boats started pulling another net without floats and left the area in a direction to the north.
The Navy finished pulling the net and left the area.
Figure 1. Small fishing boat activity in the ZTA today 24th of April.
Figure 2. Radar screenshot at 10:48, shows the targets of the fishing boats inside of the ZTA.
Figure 3. Radar screenshot at 17:23, target 4 shows the navy interceptor retrieving the illegal nets inside of the ZTA, targets 3 and 5 belonging to the fishing boats leaving the ZTA in the north direction.
